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It doesn't seem to have ocurred to the talking heads that it isn't about the "jobs" it's about the quality of them. It's like yelling - look at all the beads we made, while pointing at a bin of plastic junk and while everyone is looking for pearls, silver, gold, and precious stones. The plastic is hailed for being a presence of beads and thusly a strong bead presence. Strong bead presence means Strong economy.. really.

One reminds oneself that a job is worth what the market says it's worth.. until, one understands that the Corporatists didn't like that way of doing things and so offshored to drive wages down because evidently, wages as provided by the market were too high.. Now that they've knocked $15 dollar an hour jobs down to 8 or 9, we're told that market forces determined that. But, undermining the market makes for a strong bead market.. look at all the plastic.

With workers now on the ropes instead of having a fair chance in the fight, now big companies have redefined "fulltime" employment to get around paying benefits.
Corporations continue cutting bonuses and pay to pay themselves divedends on greater and greater scales. It's apparent that average people trying to work for a living are just dupes to be harvested for what people can squeeze out of them, all while marvelling over the plastic.

Apparently, it isn't about the reality. It's about the reality one can paint. Both sides are arguing over the wrong thing and both are po'd that nobody is buying either of their estimates of what the reality is. One would think that would give them pause to shut up and get with the program. Instead, they just get even more insistant. Meanwhile, Average Americans don't need political opinions to inform them of what's going on around them - they're in it. The politicos are not. They're simply trying to pull the matrix down over everyone's eyes, IMO. Afterall, look at all the plastic.